{"id":2389,"date":"2014-06-19T04:07:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T04:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/la-crosse-loggers\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2014-06-19T04:07:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T04:07:15","slug":"loggers-battle-off-blue-anchors-to-10-5-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/la-crosse-loggers\/2014\/06\/19\/loggers-battle-off-blue-anchors-to-10-5-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Loggers Battle Off Blue Anchors to 10-5 Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tLuke Persico certainly made his presence felt right away as he dug in for his first at-bat as a La Crosse Logger. &nbsp;The freshmen outfielder out of UCLA, took his first pitch as a Logger deep for a for a solo shot. &nbsp;The homerun capped off a monster night for the newly activated Logger as La Crosse beat the Alexandria Blue Anchors 10-5, Wednesday night from Copeland Park. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPersico&#039;s home run added to the Loggers lead, as they went up 2-0. &nbsp;Mike Nadratowski (Grand Valley State)&nbsp;would come all the way around from first on three wild pitches in the top of the third during an Austin Rei (Washington) at-bat to make the score 3-1&nbsp;Loggers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Blue Anchors chipped away at the Loggers lead and eventually would tie the game up 5-5 in the top of the seventh inning&nbsp;on a Jake Bergren (Minnesota) RBI single.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBut the La Crosse came right back in the bottom half of the seventh plating five runs. &nbsp;Persico came up big again with a two-run RBI single to give the Loggers the lead. &nbsp;Then third basemen Jerrod Bravo (Sacramento City CC) would single home Marc Frazier (Nicholls State) to increase the Loggers&#039; lead by three runs. &nbsp;Finally, Nash Knight (Dallas Baptist) broke it open with a two-run RBI single to score both Persico and Bravo.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPersico finished the night going 2-4 with two runs scored and three RBI&#039;s.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelievers Zack Walsh (Valparaiso) and Connor Baits (UC-Santa Barbara) closed the door for the Lumbermen in the eighth and ninth innings respectively.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Loggers kept pace with the Wisconsin Woodchucks and Lakeshore Chinooks with the win. &nbsp;The three teams are tied atop the South Division for the first half crown, with the Woodchucks having the tiebreaker based on winning percentage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Loggers and Blue Anchors will conclude their series Thursday Night from the Lumberyard. &nbsp;First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 . &nbsp;The game can be heard live on The Loggers Nation Station, Eagle 102.7 FM. &nbsp;Air time is set for 6:30.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Persico certainly made his presence felt right away as he dug in for his first at-bat as a La  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-news","category-update-ticker"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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